#VerifyLocal Concessionary Travel Pilot
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Designing the first service patterns for local government
By Sanjay Poyzer and Lizzie Bruce The Verify team has been supporting local councils with end-to-end transformation of a service. It’s the first time GDS has had the opportunity to co-design with local government. We wanted to see how councils could use GOV.UK Verify to let users prove their identity when accessing council services. Here’s how we’ve been developing local service patterns… Read more
Gov Design: a meetup to bring together designers working in government
By Kara Kane and Martin Jordan from the Government Digital Service The London Gov Design meetup brings together designers working in, for or with government to exchange knowledge, share experiences and support each other. The meetup is open to the public to invite students and other people interested in design in the public sector. It’s… Read more
Guest post: working with GDS on transforming local services
By Joanne Southern from Northumberland County Council [caption id="attachment_2159" align="alignnone" width="620"] Joanne and Northumberland County Council’s pilot team[/caption] I’m Joanne Southern, I work for Northumberland County Council as a Digital Team Leader. My role is to redesign and transform services within the authority. We are one of several councils working with GDS on 2 pilot… Read more
#VerifyLocal pilots moving from discovery to alpha
By Linda O'Halloran and Michael Clark from Government Digital Service Our #VerifyLocal pilots are continuing at pace. We’re looking at how local authorities can use GOV.UK Verify for their users to securely, safely and straightforwardly verify themselves online when using local services. You can read about how we’ve been working on these pilots in earlier… Read more
Collaborative user research for #VerifyLocal discovery
By Pete Gale from Government Digital Service The #VerifyLocal pilots are investigating how GOV.UK Verify might effectively be extended to local authorities. This is the first time GDS has had the opportunity to pilot the use of one of its platforms for end-to-end service transformation across local and central government boundaries. The 2 pilot projects… Read more
Using GOV.UK Verify to transform a local authority service
By Ian Litton from Warwickshire County Council and Irina Pencheva from Government Digital Service Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Taber Andrew Bain This blog post is an update on the progress of Warwickshire County Council’s Blue Badge pilot and the lessons we’ve learned so far in integrating our first local authority pilot service to GOV.UK Verify… Read more
Transforming government through #VerifyLocal pilots – 1 month in
Update by Linda O'Halloran, #VerifyLocal Pilot lead at Government Digital Service On 18 October we hosted our first event with participating local councils to kick-off our #VerifyLocal pilots. One month later, both the residential parking permit pilot and the older person’s concessionary travel pilot are underway with the input of 17 councils, many of which… Read more
#VerifyLocal pilots are open for business
By Irina Pencheva and Egle Uzkuraityte from Government Digital Service In our last #VerifyLocal blogpost we invited local authorities across the UK to take part in our first wave of collaboration pilots to integrate GOV.UK Verify into 2 services: issuing of concessionary travel passes and resident parking permits. Applications have now closed and we are happy to… Read more